Pediatric Nephrology: Volume 6 Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Management

I. Urinary Tract Infection; Infectious and Non-Infectious Tubulointerstitial Nephritis.- Identification and Documentation of Urinary Tract Infection.- Bacteriology of Urinary Tract Infection.- Highlights Pathology and Interstitial Nephritis.- Acute and Chronic Urinary Tract Infection.- Panel Discussion.- Reflux Nephropathy.- Highlights Role of Reflux in Renal Damage.- Highlights Segmental Hypoplasia with Hypertension (Ask-Upmark Kidney).- Highlights Glomerular Involvement Secondary to Vesico-ureteral Reflux (VUR).- Treatment of Bacterial Urinary Tract Infection in Childhood.- Panel Discussion.- Immunologically Mediated Tubular and Interstitial Nephritis.- Highlights Immunologically Mediated Tubulointerstitial Nephritis in Children.- Highlights Acute Non-bacterial Tubulointerstitial Nephritis (TIN).- Newer Nephrotoxic Agents.- Case Report Renal Failure Associated with Hydantoins Administration in Nutritional Rickets.- Panel Discussion.- Workshop: Clinicopathologic Correlations.- II. Nutritional Aspects of Renal Disease.- Highlights Relation of Cell Metabolism to Nutritional State.- Water and Electrolytes in Malnourished and Uremic Children.- Serum Nutrient Alterations in Chronic Renal Disease.- Highlights Plasma and Muscle Free Amino Acid Alteration in Uremic Children.- Panel Discussion.- Nutritional Aspects of Chronic Renal Disease in Children.- Nutrient Requirements.- Hyperlipidemia Secondary to Renal Disease.- Aluminum in Chronic Renal Failure: A Pediatric Perspective.- Highlights Long Term Constant Rate Enteral Nutrition in Children with Renal Disease.- Highlights Cell Metabolic Responses to Amino Acid Infusions in Chronic Uremia.- Panel Discussion.- III. Systemic Aspects of Renal Disease.- Renal Osteodystrophy: Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment.- Hypertension of Renal Origin in Childhood.- Usage of Antibiotics in Children with Renal Insufficiency.- Panel Discussion.- Principles of Diuretic Therapy in Edematous Conditions.- Peritoneal Dialysis Kinetics: A Pediatric Perspective.- Panel Discussion.- Workshop: Immuno-Clinico-Pathological Correlations.- Participants.- Author Index.